The company behind last summer’s hot social app Poparazzi appears to be readying a round two following its $15 million Series A announced in June. A new listing in the App Store under the developer’s account, TTYL, is teasing a pre-release app called Made With Friends. The app offers a twist on Poparazzi’s original concept of social networking profiles crafted by a user’s friends, instead of by the users themselves, but adds support for other types of content. Poparazzi had encouraged friends to post photos to each others’ social networking profiles as if they were their friends’ “paparazzi” — hence the name. Made With Friends, meanwhile, expands on that concept by asking users to post all sorts of things to their friends’ profiles — including text-based content like answers to questions or prompts, as well as photos and videos. This Poparazzi spin-off seems partly inspired by today’s popular Q&A apps, like Sendit or NGL, which tie into other social networks, like Snapchat and Instagram. On those apps, users receive questions in an inbox that they can answer and share to their social profiles or Stories elsewhere. But in the case of Made With Friends, users aren’t posting questions anonymously, nor is…
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Following its Series A, Poparazzi's team is readying a new social app that goes beyond photos
